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Daniel Holt has a law degree, an ambition to be a barrister – and cerebral palsy. He says his speech impediment has been seen by some in the UK as an issue but that he will fight to work in the only career that has ever interested him. We spent the day with him as…

Image copyright Getty Images Researchers in Australia say they have traced the country's indigenous languages back to a single, common tongue. The languages are all derived from a mother tongue, known as Proto-Australian, that was spoken about 10,000 years ago, according to a new study. Linguists have long debated the subject in Australia. More than…

Updated March 28, 2018 12:42:12 Video: 'He's been put in the naughty corner': Jim Maxwell says Warner ostracised by team (ABC News) David Warner's international career may have come to an end amid the fallout from the ball-tampering scandal, according to ABC cricket commentator Jim Maxwell. Maxwell, who is travelling with the team in South…

Updated March 28, 2018 12:53:10 Photo: French President Emmanuel Macron listens to pre-school children in Paris. (AP: Christophe Ena) President Emmanuel Macron has announced compulsory schooling in France will begin at age three, instead of six, as part of new reforms set to shake up the country's education system. "Kindergarten will be a founding moment…

The Trump administration’s decision to add a question about citizenship in the 2020 Census was met with fierce pushback from its critics Tuesday, launching a legal and political battle with enormous stakes in a fight that pits the administration against many Democratic states. The decision announced late Monday night by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has…

Last Updated Mar 27, 2018 7:15 PM EDT SUPERIOR, Ariz. -- A 20-year-old mother has been arrested after a baby and a toddler were found dead in car seats in a vehicle in a rural Arizona community Monday night, reports CBS affiliate KPHO. Pinal County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Navideh Forghani says the children found in the…

President Trump waves as he walks across the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., on March 25, 2018, after returning from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. (Photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP) President Trump announced on Tuesday he will end a special immigration program that has allowed nearly 4,000 Liberians to…

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. John Moore/Getty Images A national déjà vu unfolds over internet privacy in the age of big data. After The New York Times revealed that British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica siphoned off Facebook data for roughly 50 million users—all blissfully unaware that affiliates of the Trump campaign were mining their behavioral patterns…